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Summary: Wide Window Review
Review: I Read This Book In March.The main charactors are Violet Klaus and Sonny.Violet is the oldest and Sonny is the youngest.Klaus, is the middle child and he is the only boy.In this book they go and live with their catious aunt Josephine.She's afraid of almost anything!Also Count Olaf pretends to be Captain Sham.Later in the book aunt Josephine is finally found by the Buadlaire orphans in a cave.Then she gets fooled by Count Olaf and he pushes her off a boat.So aunt Josephine dies.She gets eaten by leaches.At the end Count Olaf is found because Sonny bit the fake wooden leg and they find the eye tattoo onhis ankle.So he is arrested.I liked this book because it was full of mystery and adventure.I would reccomend this book to Grades 4 and up because there are some words younger children might not understand.
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Summary: The Wide Window
Review: The Wide Window is a tragic, adventurous story of the Baudelarie orphans. Some of their adventurous include: stealing a boat and taking it across a lake in the middle of a hurricane, figuring out a puzzle from a suicide letter, and much more. They also have to deal with their care taker, Aunt Josephine, who is scared of just about everything.
This is the third book in a series of eight. I thought this was a great book as well as the whole series. At some parts it gets kind of boring, but it definatly picks up. You won't want to put it down! I hope you enjoy!!
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Summary: Very Entertaining Series!
Review: I purchased books 1-5 on audio tape to listen to with my children while driving in the car. My how time flys when you are hearing about the perils of the Baudelaire children. I notice traffic doesn't bother me half as much while I am listening to these stories. Somethings in life could be much worse than sitting in bumper to bumper traffic.My children enjoy the stories so much that they don't just want to listen in the car anymore. Every night before they go to bed we listen to about an hour of the tape. Also, I think my children appreciate me more after they see what a hard life these children have. I would recommend these stories for older children (older then 7). Younger or overly sensitive children might get scared or become upset by some of the things that happen.
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Summary: The Wide Window
Review: The children's parents have died in a fire and their uncle is after their family fortune again. They are staying at their Great Aunt Josephine's, who is practically scared of everything. When their uncle tries to attack with one of his tricky disguises again, will they survive? This is a great book, I could hardly put it down!
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Summary: The Wide Window by Mike Santiago
Review: The Wide Window is just one excellent book. Why, you may ask? Next up is why. Have I forgot to introduce myself? I'm Mike Santiago, lover of the Unfortunate events. I like Lemony Snickets books not just because of this. In her books, Lemony Warns her readers ``close the book, close the book, want no despair? close the book`` which is kinda funny. As readers know, the Budelaire children are more unfortunate then it can describe.
Lets move on to just the things of The Wide Window. In the book the Budelaire children go to live with there poor ant Josephine. They almost get eaten up by leeches, have to secretly get a boat from there arch enemy, and they almost end up killed. There are truly terrible times in the book, but it's still wonderful.
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Summary: Grim Events Continue to Haunt the Baudelaire Orphans
Review: The three Baudelaire orphans, Violet, Klaus and Sunny, are now being moved off to another relative, a second cousin's sister-in-law, who likes to be called Aunt Josephine. On the good side, Aunt Josephine has a wonderful library and a love of books. On the down side, Aunt Josephine is frightened of nearly everything. Thus the trio must eat only cold food because Aunt Josephine is too frightened to turn on the stove. Of course, her fright extends to many other clearly dangerous things (like doorknobs - never can tell when they might explode), so clearly Aunt Josephine is more than a little dysfunctional. As in the previous two books, it's not long before Count Olaf shows up and begins working a plan to get the vast fortune that will go to the children when Violet turns of age. As in the previous books, Mr. Poe, the guardian of the children's finances, is not bright enough to recognize Count Olaf until his nose is rubbed in the obvious. As you might predict, the children go through a series of frightening and dangerous adventures before confronting evil Count Olaf in disguise. These adventures include escaping from a collapsing housing, rescuing their aunt from a cave during a hurricane, and coming face-to-face with one of Count Olaf's disgusting 'friends'. Readers of this series must know how this story will end: the children must move on to another relative while being chased by Count Olaf. In comparison to the first two books Count Olaf takes a much smaller role, appear a couple of times briefly until near the end of the book. Having Count Olaf take a smaller role was a welcome change. Baby Sunny also takes a larger role in this book and displays an incredible amount of intelligence for a baby. In fact, you might say that Baby Sunny has a significant role in saving the day. This book again has a number of dark elements, and one portion I thought involving the leeches from Lake Lachrymose could be distressing for very young readers. As in my previous reviews for this series, I think the age should be at least 9; however, each parent needs to judge the ability of their child to handle the subject matter. This book continues the strong educational message of the first two books, both explicitly and implicitly. Because more difficult words are explained in detail, this book is, like the first, a good transitional book for readers in the 9 to 12 age range. While the images continue to be dark in this book, keeping the tradition of the first two books, they are not as dark as in the first, and are perhaps similar to those of the second book. I recommend this book, but, but be very sure you know your child and what is in this book before you allow your child to read it. Four stars for another good follow up to the interesting approach started in book one and continued in book two for this age range.
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Summary: Live by beautiful leech infested Lake Lachrymose
Review: LACHRYMOSE REAL ESTATE SALES, INC.
FOR SALE: A damp, dark, smelly cave
Here is your chance to own a beautiful cave on Lake Lachrymose! One of the few lakes in the world large enough to have its own hurricane. The Baudelaire orphans lived here with their aunt Josephine, in a fine cottage tentatively perched on the edge of a tall cliff overlooking the lake. Josephine was afraid of the leeches, as she was afraid of nearly everything else. She spent some time in this beautiful, damp cave as a prisoner of Count Olaf, who had disguised himself as a peglegged sailor and opened a boat rental shop as a cover. The Baudelaire orphans even visited this cave, in an attempt to rescue their frightened aunt. We can nearly gaurantee you'll have an even better time than the Baudelaire's had if you purchase this out of the way piece of property, where you're nearly assured that you won't be bothered.
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Summary: The okay book.
Review: ...BR> I think this book wasn't one of his best writings. In my opinion I think this book is one of his worse works. A lot of it isn't very realistic. The part when he said that Aunt Josephine's house built on wooden stilts on the coast of Lake Larchymore. That isn't very realistic because no one in the right mind would ever live in there.
My favorite part of the story is when the Baudelaire orphans bump into Count Olaf, in disguise as Captain Sham, at the supermarket. "She saw Count Olaf she stopped speaking, and for a second Violet thought that Aunt Josephine had recognized him too." This part his nice because it shows the Baudelaire orphans once again is brewing up some trouble for themselves
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Summary: The Baudelaire orphans are forced to learn...grammar!
Review: You knew that things were just going to go from bad to worse to just plain terrible in the misadventures of the poor Baudelaire orphans in A Series of Unfortunate Events as set down by Lemony Snickert, and that indeed proves to be the case in Book the Third, "The Wide Window." Violet, Klaus, and Sunny have been placed by Mr. Poe in the home of Josephine Anwhistle, who is their second cousin's sister-in-law and who lives in a house precariously perched over Lake Lachrymose. We know that sooner or late Count Olaf will show up in disguise in yet another attempt to gain control of the Baudelaire orphans and therefore of the Baudelaire fortune that will come to Violet when she attains her majority. But we have seen that before and will probably see that again (and again and again). What is so horrific this time is that there is clearly a qualitative rise in the level of horror. In both of the previous volumes from Lemony Snickert, "The Bad Beginning" and "The Reptile Room," there was a concerted effort to increase the vocabulary of young readers. If Snicker himself is not taking virtually each and every opportunity to explain parenthetically what a particular word means, then we often find Violet or Klaus or some other character declaring what the definition of some new or otherwise unfamiliar term that comes up during the course of the narration and dialogue. But in "The Wide Window" because of the efforts of the woman called Aunt Josephine by the Baudelaire orphans we have the intrusion of GRAMMAR into their unfortunate lives. Aunt Josephine is always correcting the grammar of everyone, even Sunny, whose inarticulate language should not be accused of being grammatically insufficient until it at least has words. Furthermore, grammar becomes insidiously important to resolving the dastardly situation in which the Baudelaire orphans find themselves. I remain as firmly convinced as ever that A Series of Unfortunate Events is a subversive attempt to educate as well as entertain. I will continue to follow the plight of Violet, Klaus and Sunny (why do those last two names in combination remind me of something else?), because my heart goes out to them as they are continuously cast adrift in a heartless world where any one of the three children obviously has more brains than all of the other adults put together. Count Olaf would be insulted by this comment, but I find myself incapable of caring less in that regard. I do so worry over what will happen to these poor children, but I am also experiencing strong feelings of trepidation (a word that means a growing sense of fear) that there are worst things beyond definitions and grammar down the road for the Baudelaires. Perhaps even...syntax.
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Summary: I bet you can't read just one!
Review: I've never read such an exiting book! I realy recomend this book to people that like suspence and sorrow. In The Wide Window you will find yourself mixed up in a world with cold cucomber soup, a frightened aunt, slimy leeches, three siblings fighting for their lives and of course an evil villian named Count Olaf that wants to destroy Claus, Violet and Sunny (the siblings). So if you like exitement and sorrow, READ THE BOOK!!!!!
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